In Greek thought barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus\u27s Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus\u27s pluralistic worldview. The first translator of cultures also translates describes and evaluates foreign speech to a degree unparalleled by other Greek ancient authors. For Herodotus, language is an area of interesting but surprisingly unproblematic difference which he offers to his audience as a model for coming to terms in a neutral way with other, more emotionally charged, cultural differences
This thesis examines six ancient historians and one biographer who wrote about Greek contact with th...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Herodotus of Halicarnassus redeemed the barbarian otherness from the current extreme portraits of un...
In Greek thought barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance doe...
The ethnic identity of the ancient Greek is a complicated idea that developed over hundreds of years...
The historian speculates on the Pelasgians’ ethnic origin by dealing first and foremost with their l...
A neglected chapter in the history of Herodotus’ reception in antiquity is his treatment in ancient ...
The present paper suggests that the recurring appeal to kinship diplomacy undermines a fixed idea of...
The fifth-century bce historian Thucydides, author of the History of the Pelo- ponnesian War, argued...
In this paper, I investigated the characteristics of cross-cultural knowledge of ancient Greeks, who...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
The political vocabulary of Herodian A study of Herodian’s political vocabulary reveals a systemati...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
Herodotus was quite widely read in antiquity, and discussion about him was rather animated. Ancient ...
This thesis examines six ancient historians and one biographer who wrote about Greek contact with th...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Herodotus of Halicarnassus redeemed the barbarian otherness from the current extreme portraits of un...
In Greek thought barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance doe...
The ethnic identity of the ancient Greek is a complicated idea that developed over hundreds of years...
The historian speculates on the Pelasgians’ ethnic origin by dealing first and foremost with their l...
A neglected chapter in the history of Herodotus’ reception in antiquity is his treatment in ancient ...
The present paper suggests that the recurring appeal to kinship diplomacy undermines a fixed idea of...
The fifth-century bce historian Thucydides, author of the History of the Pelo- ponnesian War, argued...
In this paper, I investigated the characteristics of cross-cultural knowledge of ancient Greeks, who...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
The political vocabulary of Herodian A study of Herodian’s political vocabulary reveals a systemati...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interes...
Herodotus was quite widely read in antiquity, and discussion about him was rather animated. Ancient ...
This thesis examines six ancient historians and one biographer who wrote about Greek contact with th...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Herodotus of Halicarnassus redeemed the barbarian otherness from the current extreme portraits of un...